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Alpha Girl Scouts win silver award for building serenity garden

Alpha Girl Scout Troop wins Silver Award

Girl Scout Cadette Troop 94332, with girls from Alpha and Milford, and their community helpers during the construction of the Serenity Garden at the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Washington Borough.
(Photo Courtesy of Michelle West)

"The girls made a difference in the lives of people they will never meet."

Girl Scout Cadette Troop 94332, with girls from Alpha and Milford, earned their Silver Award with the creation, design, and installation of the Serenity Garden for the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Washington Borough.

The garden offers a peaceful place for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault to sit and enjoy the outdoors while awaiting services. Prior to the garden’s installation, the site was gravel and a mostly weed-filled area with no place to sit, and now visitors can enjoy flowers, perennials, as well as ornamental grasses while sitting on a park bench and watching the birdbath.

"Angela and I are so very proud of the girls," said Michelle West, troop leader, referring to the other troop leader, Angela Arabia-Meyer. "Of course, they worked hard and were proud to see what a difference they made, but it was the work with the community that we leaders witnessed that really earned them their Silver Award.The girls made a difference in the lives of people they will never meet."

To earn their Silver Award, the Girl Scouts, all middle-school aged at the time, were required to complete a community based service project by identifying a need in the community and work to fulfill that need.

The project requires each girl to complete 50 service hours and the troop must lead other members of the community. Finally, the project must be sustainable.